real people who have equations (and other important things) named after them
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Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things)
Named After Them
Rudolf Clausius (1822- 1888, German) &
Benoît Clapeyron (1799-1864, French)
Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662, French)
Pressure unit (Pa)
Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782, Dutch-Swiss)
Bernoulli Equation
Francois-Marie Raoult (1830 – 1901, French)
Raoult’s Law
William Henry (1775-1836, English)
Henry’s Law
Frederick Trouton (1863 – 1922, Irish)
Trouton’s Rule
Germain Hess (1802-1850, Russian)
Hess’s Law
Hermann Kopp (1817-1892, German)
Kopp’s Rule
Isaac Newton (1643-1727, English)
Laws of Motion, Calculus, Newton’s Method
James Joule (1818-1889, English)
First Law of Thermodynamics
(and unit of energy, joules)
Lord Kelvin (1824 – 1907, English)
Kelvin scale of temperature measurement
James Watt (1736-1819, Scottish)
Developed steam engine, SI unit of power (watts)
Johannes van der Waals (1837 – 1923, Dutch)
Van der Waals equation of state
Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1914, American)
Gibbs phase rule
Richard Felder (1939 – present, American) & Ron Rousseau (1944 – present, American)
Authors of the top selling introductory chemical engineering textbook in the United States
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